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A WORLD AT WAR! It is the 1870s, and war rages between the world’s great powers on a scale never before seen!

sent their armed forces to war are the same as they ever were: greed, pride, the hunger for power and resources, and the unquenchable lust for dominance over all others.

At sea, mighty Battle Groups clash; lines of giant smoke-belching Dreadnoughts and Battleships hammer one another in deadly combat, supported by flotillas of smaller craft. Between the thunderous engagements of massed war fleets are dozens, if not hundreds, of lesser skirmishes. From the war-lashed North Sea to the most remote of backwater trade routes, roving packs of Cruisers, Destroyers and Submarines hunt down the merchant ships of their enemies.

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS

These mighty conflicts would not be possible without the tremendous power of mass industrialisation. This technological revolution was itself born in the fires of war in the 17th Century. Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the then Republic of Britain, created the first great manufactories to mass-produce weapons and armour for his ferociously efficient army and navy, using them to crush the domestic and foreign forces arrayed against his grim regime.

On ravaged battlefields around the globe, huge armies took to the field of battle, spearheaded by mighty armoured behemoths the size of fortresses. Bristling with cannon and rocket batteries, these devastating juggernauts loom over legions of lesser land ironclads, clashing in massed battle amid raging maelstroms of steel and thunder that shake the very earth itself.

Cromwell’s harsh Republic was consigned to the annals of history soon after his death, but the industrial and technological revolution he had triggered proved to be unstoppable. The other European powers swiftly followed his example, mimicking the Protector’s heavily-armed and welltrained New Model Army and war fleets of iron plated ships. The restored monarchy of England, and then Great Britain, proved no different, building upon Cromwell’s achievements to preserve the lead their old adversary had given them.

In the air, the most extraordinary conflicts of all split the skies over the warring fleets and armies below. Whole wings of aeroplanes swirl and tear at one another like battling swarms of angry hornets, while Medium and Heavy Bombers empty their deadly payloads onto their hapless earthbound targets. But dominating the skies, as their armoured and naval counterparts dominate the seas below, are the mightiest of flying engines; packed with cutting-edge technology and awesome firepower, these sky-giants are the airborne equal of any naval Dreadnought or Land Ship, and sport armaments to match.

THE MAKING OF THE GREAT POWERS

This surge of industrialisation transformed the fractious, warring states of Europe into major powers. The British and the French in particular used their new found strength to carve vast empires out of other parts of the world, while the Prussians and Russians built their own great dominions within the Eurasian continent. Yet European industrial dominance was not to continue for long. As they explored and fought, they spread the knowledge

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DYSTOPIAN WARS - 1870 Onwards

and power of this new technology across the globe, transforming other nations into significant powers in the process – some of which would rise in time to become formidable rivals. As the 19th Century dawned, the world was rocked by a series of major conflicts. Although the previous hundred years were punctuated by all manner of struggles, these paled in comparison to the tumultuous turn of the new century. The North American colonies threw off British rule, assisted by the power of France. Only a few years later, France itself was ravaged by a mass revolution that was to destroy the old French monarchy forever.

Heinrich Otto’s imperial appetite grew with each new conquest. As his ego swelled, he became convinced of his own infallibility. In 1811, this culminated in his great invasion of first Poland-Lithuania and then the Russian Coalition. At first his armoured legions swept asunder all before them, but vast distances and sheer Russian stubbornness eventually turned the tide, and the Russians and their allies beat back the Prussian invaders.

THE EUROPEAN WARS

The fall of the French crown was the first in a chain of events, leading to massive upheavals that shaped a huge part of the world for the next fifty years. In France, Napoleon Bonaparte seized control, and restored the ravaged country to imperial power in only a few short years. However, Napoleon’s career, cut short by his untimely death in 1804, was but the preamble to an even greater conflict.

Prussian power was smashed decisively in the west in 1815, when Wellington’s Britannians humbled the flower of the Prussian field armies at Waterloo, routing the forces of Imperial Marshal Blucher. This battle was notable for the technological wonders unleashed by the Britannians upon their enemies; squadrons of armed aeroplanes, never before used in such great numbers; and great clanking, smokebelching land-bound leviathans – the forerunners of the infamous Land Ships that would later become a part of every great nation’s arsenal of war.

France’s fall into civil war once more was the signal for Prussian Emperor Heinrich Otto to put in motion his plans to make his empire the dominant power in Europe. He forced unification between his realms and those of the Habsburgs; the latter weakened by protracted war with imperial France and fearful of Russian power. Civil war between the Republicans and the Royalists damaged the great French nation severely. The Duke of Wellington’s armies fought to overthrow the last of the Bonapartists in Spain, as France’s Mediterranean empire was carved up between lesser powers in the region. As the battles raged around them, the Prussians extended their domains. Sending troops into France in order to prop up the new French République, then on into Spain, the Prussians fought both Bonapartists and the forces of the recently renamed Kingdom of Britannia. They then annexed Sweden and the Danish territory of Norway, for what they called ‘security reasons’.

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Even before Wellington’s cannon-bedecked, rolling forts decimated whole Prussian regiments, Admiral Nelson’s fleet, spearheaded by steam-powered iron warships studded with turrets rather than broadsides, had shattered the Bonapartist French armada at Trafalgar in 1805. Though the Prussians were eventually subdued by the grand alliance arrayed against them, the wars they had pursued had altered the face of the globe. The modern age was born on the ravaged soil of Waterloo and Borodino, and in the foaming waters of Trafalgar and Copenhagen. These grueling clashes were forerunners, heralding the grim shape of warfare to come.

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anarchy. In this fevered atmosphere were born social upheavals such as the Australian Mutiny of 1842, the 1848 revolutions that swept across Europe and the explosion in popularity of Karl Marx’s radical doctrines, especially in South America.

THE MODERN WORLD

For the next few decades, however, most of the world focused on forgetting the terrors of great conflicts between these modern, so-called ‘civilised’ states. War was ever present in the background, but for a while it seemed confined to more distant parts of the globe. The Britannians fought to expand their rule to Burma, and to retain it in faraway Australia. The Empire of the Blazing Sun emerged onto the world stage in the Far East, battling for and eventually winning the Korean Peninsula. Deep in Central Asia, Russian and Chinese armies clashed over Mongolia in a conflict as hard-fought as it was pointless.

Alongside all of these advances, the great powers and their empires constantly grated against each other, as expansionary efforts continued across the world. The United States gradually annexed Mexico and parts of the tottering Spanish empire in the Americas. The Prussian's solidified their hold on Greenland alongside their Danish allies; while the Italians, Ottomans, and Egyptians engaged in repeated skirmishes over Greece and the eastern Mediterranean.

But these clashes were partially obscured by more spectacular advances in technology. Electricity was successfully harnessed, by Faraday, Edison and, most famously, the mysterious visionary Tesla from his home in the fastness of Prussian Scandinavia. Many towns and cities grew into sprawling, smogshrouded metropolises. Others, especially in North America, began to grow upwards: towering, ornate metal-framed buildings sprouting like strange plants from the great conurbations of the Atlantic seaboard.

THE TREASURES OF ANTARCTICA

In the midst of this roiling, volatile age, an extraordinary expedition set out from the Kingdom of Britannia. Its destination was Antarctica, the vast ice-bound wilderness at the foot of the world. Its leader was Lord Barnabas Draynes Sturgeon, eccentric Britannian scientist and minor noble. Theirs was to be a genuine voyage of discovery!

Chemical and biological science underwent a similar revolution. Medicine made quantum leaps with the adoption of effective hygiene, new treatments and mechanical prosthetics. New chemical compounds revolutionised the production of everything from fuels to foodstuffs. Ironically, the wars of the recent past had provided a huge boost to such advances, helping to forge the world growing in this time of relative peace.

The expedition was intended to prove a theory shared only by Sturgeon and few other radical scientific minds: that the wastes of Antarctica were not empty and desolate, but instead concealed treasures of incalculable value. Not surprisingly, Sturgeon and his comrades were considered cranks by mainstream science. Few expected them to find anything on the chilly southern continent – or indeed that they would come back at all!

Nonetheless, while the wealthy enjoyed the fruits of this brave new age, life for the majority remained hard, squalid and dangerous. Mechanisation helped to abolish the institution of slavery in North America in the 1820s, but the need for swarms of workers to man the great factories and industries, or to toil in the fields alongside mechanical farming engines, did not diminish.

The expedition was Sturgeon’s lifelong dream, and he had spent years pulling together the resources to organise it. Despite his adversity, he had managed to secure valuable patronage from certain parties, in particular Albert, Prince-Consort to Queen Victoria herself. Other aid came from Tsar Nikolai of the Russian Coalition at the behest of his son, Crown Prince Vladimir. Significantly, the Russian contribution introduced Sturgeon to a scientific polymath of extraordinary talent: Markov Helsinki. At first a priceless asset to Sturgeon’s cause, he would later become the most infamous figure in Artarctican history.

Beneath the ornate and glittering veneer of great cities, gilded palaces, aristocratic pomp and technological splendour, the societies of the great powers and other nations seethed with a volatility and political fervour that at times bordered on

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The expedition made landfall in Antarctica in the mid-1840s after a long journey fraught with difficulties. However, to the surprise of everyone, not least Sturgeon and his friends, they soon made what seemed to be a finding of great import. A series of reconnaissance flights inland revealed an extraordinary sight – a vast glowing mass of bluegreen crystalline rock, spreading snowflake-like out across the ice, deep in the desolate Antarctican interior.

THE STURGINIUM AGE

Despite the immense obstacles lying in the path of their ambition, it did not take long for the new ‘Antarcticans’ to make their mark on the world. In these early days, Sturgeon and his closest companions, driven by a mixture of exploratory fervour and the need to prove the value of their discoveries, codified and released a huge amount of the knowledge they found as they began to explore the Vault.

It was not until nearly four years later and after much hardship that the expedition reached this incredible site overland. But when they did, what they found was more astonishing still. Buried within the eerie crystalline agglomerations, sunken into the earth and rock and ice, was a strange doorway. Beyond it lay what would truly become a discovery of earthshaking proportions – the mysterious Antarctican Vault: a treasure-house of technology and scientific knowledge without equal in the world.

The consequences of this were far-reaching. The flow of ideas stimulated the greatest surge of innovation and invention since the beginning of the Industrial Age. At the centre of this was the strange mineral surrounding the Vault, and which extended in great veins outwards from it. Codified as ‘Element 270’, and later named Sturginium, in honour of Sturgeon himself, this material was the driving force for numerous staggering discoveries. Sturginium proved to be the veritable ‘Philosopher’s Stone’ of legend. It could bestow amazing properties on other materials; creating revolutionary metal alloys of light weight and incredible strength; fuels of tremendous efficiency, and scores of other applications.

Yet this extraordinary discovery was at first almost entirely ignored. Sturgeon was ridiculed as a fake and a fraud, laughed out of a special symposium at the Britannian Royal Society. Incensed, he swore to return to Antarctica – not to simply explore and catalogue the Vault, but to build a whole new realm, governed by reason and open-mindedness, free from what he saw as the hidebound rules of dull convention and scientific orthodoxy.

It also formed the core of a series of extraordinary machines: the ‘Generators’ pioneered all over the world, originating from Vault knowledge and adapted to established technology. There were devices that could project thrumming shielding screens of energy to defeat projectiles, kinetic enhancers to augment engine efficiency and machines that could influence even local weather patterns.

Despite such ridicule his fame had grown vastly, earning him patronage from many other nations. This time, when he departed Britannia, a great flotilla of other adventurous souls went with him. They would form the core of the world’s youngest nation – the Covenant of Antarctica.

Most incredible of all were bizarre temporal and distance distorters; engines of near-surreal complexity that could cause localised warps in time, or teleport men and materials long distances in a matter of mere moments. In 1857, after years of toil, the Covenant of Antarctica was officially declared as a new nation. For a while, Sturgeon, and those who shared his vision of a better world, rejoiced in their achievements. The wave of new technology, for which they earned the plaudits they had desired for so long, spread out across the world.

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Element 270 deposits, though mostly smaller in scale than the vast treasure of Antarctica, were uncovered around the world and recognised for what they were. For a while, the new High Lord of Antarctica and his councilors dared to believe that the Sturginium Age would herald a new era of peace and prosperity for all the world.

But their efforts could not prevent human ingenuity developing ever more dangerous devices from the knowledge they had already unleashed. Pandora’s Box had been well and truly opened by the Covenant. BETRAYAL!

In 1866, the unthinkable happened. Markov Helsinki, Covenant Master of Engineers, and trusted member of the Inner Council was unmasked as a traitor – an agent of Tsar Vladimir of the Russian Coalition. Appalled, Sturgeon immediately ordered his intelligence services to apprehend Helsinki and his co-conspirators.

Sadly, they were to be cruelly disappointed: their discovery led quickly to greed and war, once again revealing the true nature of humankind. THE SLIDE TO GLOBAL CONFLICT

The eagerness with which other nations absorbed Antarctican teachings and Vault treasures was matched only by their drive to take these incalculably precious gifts and turn them to warlike ends. New metal alloys and chemicals went into the construction of Battleships and hulking Land Ships, cannons and bombs.

Even as he did so, a wave of factional conflict swept through the Covenant. Markov had spent years building a political powerbase as a cover for his true activities. His followers, ignorant of the truth behind their charismatic leader, believed the High Lord to be acting out of fear and jealousy, in contravention of the Covenant itself.

Amazing Sturginium-gel Repulsine plate technology, which allowed a craft fitted with them to defy gravity itself, became the heart of monstrous flying war-craft, whose long shadows would bring terror to those they fell upon. Even the powers of the Generators were twisted: weather control devices intended to green the world’s deserts were instead used to invoke tempests that devastated towns and villages. Terrifying force projectors were created with the power to make metal and flesh run like wax. Interminable minor conflicts continued to flare up around the world, now enlivened by desire for a rival power’s technological and scientific secrets as well as territory and resources. Despite the scintillating knowledge and possibilities bestowed upon the world by the Sturginium Age, basic human nature – and all its greed, hubris and desire for power and dominance – remained unchanged. Within only a few years, Lord Sturgeon and the masters of the Covenant began to realise that their incautious actions had spawned a fearful chain reaction, a ripple effect of unintended consequences that threatened to shatter the world. From as early as 1860, when the United States of America was torn apart by a fierce Civil War, Sturgeon and his council were scaling back the knowledge they permitted to leave Antarctica’s shores.

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Fighting broke out between the most fervent ‘Markovites’ and loyal Antarcticans, resulting in chaos that wracked all the regions of Covenant territory. Although the revolt quickly subsided when its participants realised the truth, for the Traitor it had served its purpose. Amid the anarchic situation he had provoked, Markov himself and his closest allies escaped the Covenant, hijacking a prototype submarine and embarking upon an epic journey back to the Russian Coalition.

Within weeks, thanks to Uematsu’s skilful politicking, Oni’s Division had massed in full battle array off the coast of Singapore in an impressive show of strength. The Divine Empress Shinzua almost certainly intended for this to be the sole objective. However, matters ran devastatingly out of control. Exactly who fired the first shot is still a mystery, but the action culminated in the Wani Division launching a full-scale assault on Singapore. The city was almost totally razed: its garrison shattered and its civil population sent fleeing as refugees.

In their wake they left the Covenant and its leaders shaken and shell-shocked. Lord Sturgeon and his council had believed themselves and their new domain above the petty concerns of nationalistic fervour and factionalism. That conceit was to blame for the once-great Antarctic political unity which now lay in ruins.

From there, events escalated dramatically. Despite its own distrust of the EITC, the Kingdom of Britannia could not afford to allow the challenge to go unanswered. Within weeks a punitive force, the 45th Expeditionary under Lord Duxford, was pulled together and dispatched post-haste to Singapore.

Although the Antarcticans managed to conceal news of the internal crisis from the rest of the world, Markov’s treachery played a major part in the Covenant leadership’s decision to begin pulling back from open relations with many other powers.

However, the resulting action was a bloody failure; the 45th was almost completely destroyed by a ferocious hit-and-run campaign masterminded by the unstoppable forces of Oni. The 45th’s intervention only served to compel the Empress into mobilising her Empire’s full military strength in support of her wayward, but now wildly popular commander. As the fighting spread into the Malayan Peninsula, the Britannians set in motion their own core forces and the conflict intensified.

FLASHPOINT SINGAPORE

As Antarctica reeled, many far-sighted people around the globe feared that the rest of the world was living on borrowed time; that it was a matter of when, rather than if, the great powers would make war upon each other.

Oni’s remaining Wani soldiers, their devastating work now complete, disappeared from view into the vast Asian interior, but the conflict they helped spark had gained a savage life of its own. Singapore and Malaya marked the crossing of a line. Two great powers were now openly at war for the first time in decades. They would not be the last.

At first, the beginning of the crisis seemed minor. The East India Trading Company (EITC), jealous of the growing influence of Blazing Sun mercantile efforts on what they saw as their ‘home turf’, drove a prominent Imperial merchant out of their de facto capital, Singapore, on trumped-up charges of smuggling. Little did they know that their highhanded arrogance would lead to a catastrophe.

THE GREAT RUSSIAN MARCH

As a full-scale war in south-east Asia flared into life, a second conflict boiled up in Europe. The Russian Coalition, having made common cause with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, began its great march to the west. Although offensives also began in the Black Sea and Caucasus regions against the Ottoman Empire, the vast majority of Russian western military strength was devoted to the assault on Prussian imperial dominions.

Financially ruined, the slighted merchant took his own life. Unfortunately for the EITC, his nephew was a senior leader in the Blazing Sun military, the commanding general of the Wani, 3rd Division of the Army of the Sword. This commander, whom the world now knows only as Oni, had the ear of High General of the Sword Uematsu who, in turn, brought what would have been a minor matter to the Empress’s Council of Seven.

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It was this great march that brought into terrifying view the full effect that Markov's ‘ Circle of Scientists' had had on the Russian Coalition’s armed forces. The great White Army formations, armed and equipped with extraordinary new weapons of terrible power, struck along an immense front from the Arctic to the Carpathians, while the Black and White Sea fleets launched their own offensives to force Russian naval power back out into the great oceans. The whole of old Royal Prussia was placed under a state of virtual siege, while the Teutonic Order called together its forces to defend their Scandinavian fastness from Russian assaults. Further south, only the mighty Wolfgang Fortresses, that stretched for miles along the Prussian frontier, held back the massed Russian armies and Polish-Lithuanian allies. The Russian focus on Europe was almost upset by a brief naval skirmish with American warships in the Far East, dubbed the ‘Bering Incident’. Although fullscale conflict was avoided, relations remained tense.

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THE LONDON RAID

Beset by the Britannian onslaught, the Empire of the Blazing Sun appealed to their long-time Prussian associates for assistance. Loath as he was to risk a full-scale war on two fronts, Emperor Frederick Grunder, confident of his empire’s ability to contain the Russian threat, gave orders that a blow should be struck to remind the Britannians of their vulnerability. The result was an operation of extraordinary audacity which took place in 1870 – a raid on London itself! Mere hours after the Prussian Empire’s official declaration of war against Britannia, Prussian forces under Colonel – later to be General – Matthias Sturm carried out one of the most ingenious attacks yet attempted. On that foggy night, a single experimental Prussian submersible penetrated the heavy defences of the Thames Estuary, sailing into the heart of London.

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Upon reaching Westminster, the submarine surfaced and unleashed a storm of rockets, shells and clouds of poison gas upon the Britannian Parliament itself. The attack lasted for over two hours. News of it spread like wildfire and caused mass panic, hindering the defenders’ attempts to stop it. Although little real damage was caused, Luftlancer troops were able to leave huge Prussian flags draped from the clock-faces of Big Ben. The submarine then escaped. The message to the Britannian government was clear: nowhere is safe, nowhere is beyond our reach. The shock of the strike was immense. Lord Westbury, Britannian minister of war, resigned in disgrace. He was replaced by Lord Strathgordon, who oversaw a huge expansion of the Britannian military as thousands of outraged subjects flocked to enlist. WAR AROUND THE WORLD

More than any other single incident, the London Raid was the catalyst that caused the previously regional conflicts to merge into a single global war. The belligerents invoked treaties and called upon allies. More and more powers and regions of the world were drawn into the burgeoning storm. In Europe, Britannian forces built up in Belgium with the intention of striking at both the Prussian Empire and the Republique of France. The Kingdom also called upon the Federated States of America for aid against the Blazing Sun. The Federacy, eager to expand its influence across the Pacific, was more than willing to help. Likewise, French and Italian League forces stood with the Prussians against the Russian march. The Ottoman Empire, though it sought neutrality, edged closer to the Prussian bloc for mutual protection against the Tsar’s southern offensives. As the war continued, the great powers and their lesser allies coalesced into two huge alliances. On one side stood the Prussian Empire, the République of France and the Empire of the Blazing Sun, the core of the so-called ‘Imperial Bond’. Opposing them, the Kingdom of Britannia, the Federated States of America and the Russian Coalition, formed a triumvirate that came to be known as the ‘Grand

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Coalition’. Many lesser nations, by accident or design, were also drawn into the war. Not all succumbed however. The Covenant of Antarctica, by dint of distance and security, held itself aloof; refusing to be swayed, intent on pursuing its own plans. Several other nations remained uncommitted to either alliance; though they readied their armed forces for conflict all the same. Bitter experience had taught them that mere neutrality alone is ultimately no defence at all. To add to the complexity of the war, mercenary activity exploded as a vast array of private military contractors sought to profit from all sides! THE CONFLICT SO FAR

War continued, with new fronts continually opening up as the great alliances seek new advantages over one another. An audacious Imperial Bond offensive from the South Atlantic triggered the socalled ‘Caribbean Emergency’, and Britannian and American forces rushed to defend a previously quiet region from a fierce assault. The fighting that raged was further complicated by the intervention of Antarctican forces in strength for the first time. Covenant units struck at both sides, determined to blunt the effectiveness of their forces to such a degree as to force a stalemate, albeit with varying degrees of success. In northern Europe, a Britannian offensive in strength was mounted in the Low Countries. The Kingdom sought vengeance for the London Raid by attacking the Prussian Netherlands from the source of the strike, and also to build a foothold on continental Europe, hoping to drive a wedge between their Franco-Prussian adversaries. The Britannians were aided in their offensive by a Russian expeditionary force. Sent west by the Tsar with the objective of widening Russian participation and striking at the hated French, the Russians played a key role in the campaign. No-one could have anticipated that the expeditionary force was to defend the homeland of their ally from the first cross-channel invasion to be launched in centuries. In the Pacific, the Americans launched a great drive against the Blazing Sun, and sought to strike at

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the Covenant of Antarctica. The Hawaiian Islands became the scene of a vast conflict with battle lines that stretched across the ocean as well as on land. The southern arm of the offensive clashed inconclusively with Covenant forces upon the bizarre ‘ Ghost Island’ of Hooke’s Reach, before driving on into the East Indies to link up with several other Britannian imperial contingents. The Orient also saw major land battles as Blazing Sun and Chinese formations assaulted the Russian Far East in support of their European Imperial Bond partners. Vladivostok was besieged, but held out in the face of fierce attacks, while at sea, Russian and American naval fleets managed to bury their distrust and took the fight to their mutual enemies. Finally, the Mediterranean and East Africa were also sucked into the conflict. The French, with Prussian and Italian aid, sought to rebuild their empire in the face of Britannian and American opposition. Further east, Grand Coalition forces tried to drive a path from the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea through to their newest allies in Egypt, cutting off several regions of Ottoman territory from the core of their empire in the process.

All of these conflicts still rage to varying degrees. The great alliances are, for the moment, quite evenly matched. It remains to be seen how the war will develop, but one thing is certain – its end is nowhere yet in sight! THE NEXT REVELATION

For the Covenant of Antarctica, and the various nations to which it is secretly affiliated, the whole war is a terrible aberration. All over the world, from concealed bases and holdings in the territories of secretly sympathetic nations, Antarctican forces seek three major objectives. Primarily they aim to blunt the war efforts of each nation enough to compel them into peace. Their second, self-assigned mission is to investigate and secure any evidence of unusual technology or knowledge, preventing its capture and militarisation at all cost. Lord Sturgeon and his Council live in fear of any other belligerent power discovering another Vault or anything akin to it. More so than any other power, they are convinced that the world is changing, for more reasons than the great war alone. And of course, the Antarticans, and none more so than Lord Sturgeon himself, seethe with fury that Markov, the Traitor, continues to wield such influence in this war-torn world. Understanding this as a tertiary objective, they nonetheless yearn for an opportunity to capture the calculating Russian and sever his control over the fate of these troubled times. Strange events are afoot; the South Pacific island of Hooke’s Reach, over which they had fought the Americans, had simply appeared from the depths of the ocean mere months before. Sturginium deposits are being charted in more and more places around the world, irrespective of region. Most bizarre of all, other findings are being made – eerie structures of unknown power and potency. These discoveries point towards a stark conclusion – the full effects of the Sturginium Age upon the world have barely begun to reveal themselves. The rippling consequences of the Dystopian Wars may in time echo throughout not only one world, but perhaps many others.

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